Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word came yesterday that the College population is growing--anthropologically speaking. An increasing demand for seven-foot beds has been noted over the last several years, according to an official spokesman...
...after Kefauver led his Senate Crime Investigating Committee around the country. When the committee hearings went on TV, millions of viewers saw the chairman as a dauntless hero fighting the bad men. He wrote a bestselling book, Crime in America, reporting on the committee's work. Suddenly in demand as a lecturer, he stumped across the land, at first discussing crime, then taking up international relations. While he always smilingly shushed talk about the presidency, there was little doubt that his steady eyes were beamed at the White House...
...money and talent on the problem. Last week at the Philadelphia meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a group of Monsanto chemists told about discoveries that are causing great excitement in agricultural circles. Monsanto may have found an answer to the world's eternal demand for more productive land...
Because of this growth, the U.S. has no deep reason to worry about finding use for the tremendous expansion in its productive machine. The backlogged demand for all civilian goods will be accumulating during the period of cutbacks. Detroit automakers estimate that fully one-third of the 42 million cars now on the road are over 15 years old. The roads themselves are no longer adequate for today's high-speed cars, and many fell into disrepair during the war years; an estimated $40 billion is needed to modernize them alone. The oil industry believes it will have...
SEPTEMBER-Demand & Supply. In Korea, the 2nd Division's 38th Regiment requisitioned a generator and two typewriters, received a candle and two pencils...